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At the 2023 International Coronary Congress, five experts made presentations on hot topics in coronary surgery. Subjects included the future of non-surgical management of coronary disease, the future of coronary surgery research, new coronary guidelines, and more. The session ended with a panel discussion on guideline writing. Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org…
The patient is a sixty-eight-year-old man with a history of chronic aortic dissection 10 years prior to this operation, which was repaired. He had aortic regurgitation and required redo surgery. First, the right femoral vein was cannulated and the innominate artery and aorta were both cannulated separately so that the perfusion could be split. The…
Ebstein’s anomaly is a rare congenital heart malformation that accounts for about 0.5 percent of all congenital heart defects. It is characterized by downward displacement of the septal and inferior leaflets of the tricuspid valve, redundant anterior leaflets with a sail-like morphology, dilation of the true right atrioventricular annulus, tricuspid valve regurgitation, and dilation of…
Endometriosis most commonly involves the pelvis. The most common extrapelvic location of endometriosis is the thorax. Thoracic endometriosis can manifest itself as pneumothorax, hemothorax, hemoptysis, pulmonary nodules, or thoracic pain, but the most common presentation is catamenial pneumothorax. Catamenial pneumothorax symptoms usually begin 24 hours before to 72 hours after the onset of menstruation. A…
In an exclusive interview with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons first woman president, Professor Jennifer Romano, she discusses her plans for her time as president. Prof. Romano emphasizes the importance of having the conversation surrounding gender disparities in CT surgery, her collaborative study with Dr. Anna Olds on fertility and parenting in CT surgery, and…
This video describes the authors’ preferred approach to performing an ascending aorta replacement using a minimally invasive technique. The case involves a fifty-three-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension and an ascending aorta aneurysm with increased diameter during follow up. A preoperative study showed a normally functioning bicuspid aortic valve and a nondilated…
To simplify allograft implantation, especially in a case like this where the normal aortic root anatomy was disrupted by the infection and when debridement was carried down to the LVOT muscle, the authors of this video set up three points to run three long polypropylene sutures between—the right and left trigones at the base of…
At the 2023 International Coronary Congress, five presenters spoke on their techniques for optimizing the saphenous vein bypass graft. Topics covered include SVG outcomes over the last 20 years, elimination of SVGs, best practices in SVG harvesting for CABG, and more. Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org represent the views of the authors…
To begin, the innominate artery was cannulated with a 14 or 16 Fr pediatric cannula. A separate circuit was used to perfuse the brain. It was given one liter per minute of perfusion at 20 °C while the rest of the body had a second circuit, which was kept at 34 °C with a distal…
Anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery (AAOCA) is a condition that represents between 0.1–1 percent of malformations (1). It has been found with a prevalence of 0.44 percent in the young population (2). It is most frequently asymptomatic but can also be related to sudden death (3). AAOCA can present in different forms, such…
The Cox-Maze procedure is an effective and successful method of surgical ablation. However, for lone atrial fibrillation cases, invasive sternotomy is not feasible. Patients with persistent atrial fibrillation can benefit by combining left atrial endocardial and epicardial interventions. This video presents multiple cases to highlight surgical steps of a totally thoracoscopic left atrial maze. The…
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor Ralph Damiano, Jr., a cardiothoracic surgeon at Washington University…
April saw a wide variety of content published on CTSNet. Popular articles published this month include two videos from Dr. Tristan Yan’s off-pump CABG series, important news in CT surgery, and a comprehensive webinar on the Ross procedure. 1. Cone Repair for Tricuspid Valve EndocarditisBy Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, Mohammad Rafati Navaei The top video this…
The patient in this case is a sixty-year-old woman with increasing shortness of breath, especially in a horizontal position. She was diagnosed with right-sided diaphragmatic paralysis. Surgeons suspected trauma or a viral infection to be the possible causes, but exact etiology was not clear. Observation did not result in any functional or radiological improvement and…
CTSNet recently hosted the third webinar in the ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery Committee and the Women in Thoracic Surgery webinar series, in which experts discussed addressing inequities for women in CT surgery. Watch the recording below for more. Topics Covered • Cherie Erkmen: Fighting Inequities in CT Surgery Salaries• Shanda Blackmon: Fighting Inequities…
Background The first heart transplant in Colombia was performed in Medellín on December 1, 1985 and the first successful lung transplant in Colombia was performed on October 28, 1997 at the same center. The principal surgeon of these two milestones was Alberto Villegas Hernández (1, 2). Today, the Cardio VID Clinic at Pontifical Bolivarian University…
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